On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Lars Hellström wrote:
> I have to ftp.dante.de uploaded an archive xdoc.tar.gz into /incoming. It
> contains a directory xdoc with the six files:
> README.txt
> docindex.dtx
> docindex.ins
> xdoc2.dtx
> xdoc2.ins
> xdocdemo.tex
> and I would like to have them put in /macros/latex/contrib/xdoc. The
> licence that applies is the LPPL.
>
> This is an update of the material in /macros/latex/exptl/xdoc, so that
> directory and its contents can be removed. It should probably be replaced
> by a link to the new contrib/xdoc directory.
>
> BTW, am I right if I assume that you are in a process of moving the
> previous contents of /macros/latex/contrib/other and
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported to simply /macros/latex/contrib? (It
> certainly looks that way in the archive.)
Yes, we are. We announced this on the ctan-ann mailing lsit a while ago.
Thanks for the upload, I installed the new material in
macros/latex/contrib/xdoc
and changed the directory
macros/latex/exptl/xdoc
to a link to the new one.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
>
> On what these files are:
>
> xdoc2.dtx:
> The xdoc2 package contains reimplementations of some of
> the features found in the standard LaTeX doc package
> by Mittelbach et al. Amongst other things, these
> reimplementations provide support for:
> * definiting new commands similar to DescribeMacro and
> new environments similar to the macro environment,
> * two-sided document layouts,
> * sorting of version numbers as 2 < 11 < 100
> (if they are marked up using uintver),
> * external cross-referencing,
> * making index entries for invisible characters,
> * optionally ignoring certain prefixes (such as @ and
> @@) in macro names when sorting them.
> The xdocdemo document demonstrates a couple of these
> features.
>
> I consider the xdoc2 package to merely be the second
> prototype for an (as yet nonexistant) package xdoc which
> should provide the same features (and more). I have
> decided to release the prototype to make its functionality
> generally avaiable, but under a variant name to avoid
> future incompatibility problems. (E.g., the final xdoc
> package will probably use many LaTeX2e* features that are
> still on the prototype stage. xdoc2, on the other hand,
> uses no LaTeX2e* features.)
>
> docindex.dtx:
> docindex.dtx contains a reimplementation of the doc mechanisms for
> sorting and formatting a sorted index. docindex.ins installs two forms
> of this package: docindex (which is a LaTeX2e* package) and docidx2e
> (which works with the normal LaTeX2e). The main advantage of these
> packages over the doc mechanisms is that configuration has been made
> much easier.